Improvement in receiving-pipes for water-reservoirs



J. OSBORN.

Receiving Pipes for Water Reservoirs;

N0.48,974. Patented March 24,1874.

STATES JonN OSBORN, on NEW HAVEN, ooNNncTmUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN RECEIVING-PIPES FOR WATER-RESERVOIRS- Specificationforming part of Letters Patent No. 148,974, dated March 24, 1874;application filed February 26, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN OSBORN, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inReceiving-Pipes for Water-Reservoirs and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings andthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, aside view, and in Fig. 2 a top view.

This invention relates to a device for receiving the water in reservoirsfor delivery into the supply-pipes.

It is well known that the water in reservoirs is the purest near thesurface; hence it is desirable to take the water into thedistributingpipes from as near the surface as possible but, as thesurface or level is variable, it has been the practice to take the waterfrom about the lowest level which the water attains, or from a pipe madeadjustable; but such adjustment must necessarily be considerably belowthe surface in order to take the requisite quantity to fill the pipes.

The object of this invention is the construction of a device which shalltake the water from the actual surface and it consists in a pipe jointedto the main near the bottom of the reservoir, and so as to be freelyturned in a vertical plane near the joint, combined with a funncl-shapedmouth jointed to the free end of said jointed pipe, and with or withouta counter-balance, which will hold the funnelshaped mouth in ahorizontal plane at any elevation to which it may be raised.

A represents the bank of areservoir; B, the main or outlet pipe; G, apipe which leads into the main, and is jointed so as to be raised orlowered in a vertical plane, and it is thus raised or lowered by theattachment of a cord or chain thereto in any convenient manner. Upon thefree end of the pipe 0 a branch, D, turning at right angles, is formed,the axis of this pipe D horizontal. In the end of this pipe D is setanother pipe, E, so as to turn freely in its joint, and which stands ina vertical position, as seen in Fig. 2. The upper end of this pipe E isformed into a funnel-shaped mouth, F. Below the joint a counter-balance,G, is hung to the pipe E, sufficient to support the pipe E always in avertical position, whatever may be the elevation of the pipe 0, and thissupports the funnel-shaped mouth always in a horizontal plane. The waterpasses through the mouth F to the main; hence the mouth may be raised tovery near the surface of the water, and convey to the main its fullcapacity entirely from the surface. As the level of the water falls orrises these mouths are depressed or elevated by the person in charge.

Preferably two of these mouths are used, one leading into each end ofthe branch D, as shown. These months are, by means of a counter-balance,G, self-adjusting, so as to always stand in a vertical position, asdenoted in broken lines, Fig. 2.

The counter-balance may be dispensed with, but in such case the months Fmust be adjusted and set so that the axis will be vertical as the pipe 0is raised or lowered.

I claim as my invention- In combination with a pipe, 0, jointed to andcommunicating with the main B, the ver tical pipe E, jointed to the pipe0, and constructed with the funnelshaped mouth F, and so that the saidpipe E may be adjusted to a vertical position, substantially as setforth, whatever may be the elevation of the pipe 0.

JOHN OSBORN.

Witnesses A. J. TIBBITs, J. H. SHUMWAY.

